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COLLIER COUNTY MUSEUM
Journey back over 10,000 years of Southwest Florida’s unique past at the Collier County Museum.
Learn about mastodons and fierce saber cats, Calusa
and Seminole Indians, and the rugged pioneers who settled one of America’s
last frontiers. Visitors can enjoy five acres of native gardens, two
early Naples
cottages, swamp buggies and a logging locomotive. Special programs and
exhibitions are presented throughout the year. ...more information
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Museum
of the Everglades offers a unique look
back at Collier
County's
development in the early 1920's. Originally built as a laundry to serve
the workers on the Tamiami Trail, it is now
listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ...more information
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Home of
the Robert Roberts family, the Immokalee Pioneer Museum tells the story of
pioneer families of this still untamed area perched on the edge of the
Big Cypress swamp and the Everglades. Come learn about the bustling
cattle business on the south Florida
frontier at this 15-acre turn of the century ranch. Currently undergoing
restoration, the site is open by appointment only.
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Courtesy
of
Mildred Roberts Sherrod
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Celebrate Florida's colorful past March
31, & April 1, 2007.
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